The White House insisted Tuesday that the implementation of President Barack Obama's landmark health care law will not be affected by a negative federal court ruling, and the Justice Department said it would appeal.
"There's no practical impact at all as states move forward in implementing ... the law that Congress passed and the president signed," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters.
Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler said that, as expected, the department would appeal Monday's ruling by U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson in Virginia. Hudson declared that a central provision of the law — the requirement for nearly everyone to carry health insurance — was unconstitutional.
Obama administration officials noted that consultations with states on implementing the law were moving forward. Later this week officials from all but a handful of states are expected to travel to Washington to meet with the Health and Human Services Department to discuss setting up the state-based insurance marketplaces, called exchanges, required by the new law.
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Let's stop the talk and just look at some facts. The wife and I got our SS checks today.They are $200.00 a month less then they were in Feburary. Reason? We have to pay $2,400/year for Obmama Care. Promblem is I'm retired Army Vet that is covered by the VA and the Wife and I are also coverd by Tri-Care, the military retirement system. We have no use for medicare, never used medicare nor will ever use medicare BUT UNDER PENALITY OF LAW, must pay $2,400/year anyway. How can this possibly in the most warped Democratic thinking, be fair and legal.
Joe Price
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